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Serial ATA and AGP 8X motherboards
bjschrock writes "Tech-Junkie reports that Asus is rolling out new motherboards with the new Serial ATA interface, along with AGP 8X support. Serial ATA will soon become pretty popular with the release of new hardware like the Seagate Baracudda ATA V hard drive, that sports a 8MB cache. The main advantage of Serial ATA, besides a slight speed increase, is the much smaller cable and the ability to hot-swap."
You've got that right about "hot-swap". Those hard drives become pretty hot in there.
Wow--A serial drive! is it true the the project's code name was Commdore 1541? :)
Amen to that, dont ever try to run a hard drive and a CD-RW on the same channel. On a side note, does ATA or this serial ATA offload any of the processing to a special controller, ala SCSI, or is it still handled by the CPU?
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People are getting tired of their computers sounding like jet engines.
What is it with people complaining about their computers making noise anyway? I actually like my computers to sound like they're on...the lack of noise makes me nervous (see: Dead Silence, aka Power Outage). I have a computer by my bedside and the noise helps me sleep...in fact, I have a very hard time sleeping without that white noise.
Computers make noise, just like refrigerators make noise, washing machines make noise, and cars make noise. It's not like it's constant beeping, either, folks. Get ovah it.
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ATA133 can only handle one device, if you use more it bumps down to ATA66.
Where did you get that? Each device has its own transfer mode setting that is independant of the other device on the controller (if there is one).
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